The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1865, Page 4

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Year Ending May 1, 1865. -$1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 160,000 161,079 90,548 eof Paper $1,695,000 871,820 52. TaD Nuws. of tho statements In Genera! Grant's he President that there is grant want of uniformity tn the action of the Freedmen’s Bursa: olllvere in (he South, and that maoy of them assumtan entire Indeperidonce of the army officers, ‘Goners Con oner of the Bureau, yesterday t rons nt Commission *rz, calling these matters, He tells th-m tha; cord of proceedings and subordination @ of departments op the nts of the Bureau, and that ing toacteontrary to thee thwith remeved or subj t from Wash ington that the P Sonate the nomination of @ moral ‘Logan, declined, ‘The name low, who is now our Minister in Fran ¢ appointment, has been Iw Ys » It is also re- Valkenburg, of New York, has to Japan, to supersede the re (ment of Mc. Chauncey M. Depew, nmton the application of A. H. Garland, of , to be adn id to practice in the United States Court, with aking the oath prescribed by Congress, was cot od yosterday, from Friday le 1, before that court, iu Wi ton, Senator Revordy Johnson speaking agalust the conatitutionality of the oah. Many of the gentlemen lect , States witeli took part in th arly edmisat nae, and it if expacted Aheir caset have. been deck mittee of Fifteen, mporar d bevore the Congress by the oid cérPespon- Into a ew election for Vaited States Senators; Wily aro restrained by a fear of incurring the displeasure of the President. ‘The favorite candidates for the positions among those who 4 in tho robollion are John Randolph Tucker, was robol Attorney General of Virginia, and K. M. 7, Hunter. A large meeting of the colored people of Richmond, called in consequence of the reports that they meditate outbreak dur‘ng the Christmas holideys, at city on Monday night Iasi, at which ere. and resolutions strongly disavowed that y diesigu was entertained by them. The people of North Carolina, a Wilmington despatch states, like those of Virginia and other Southern States, @re considerably excited by apprehensions of a negro ising about Chrietmas, The militagy authorities in the Btato, however, think there is little ground for these fears, but Lave made tho necessary dispositions of troops to quol! any disturbance, should it eccur. 4 The two hundred and forty-iifth anniversary of the fanding of the Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth Rock, and Usth anniversary of the New England Society of were coleBrated by tha: association last oven 1ot_ at Dolmonico’s, in Fourteonth stroct, ere was a large attendance, and the ocension was a ery enthnsinstic, patriotic a pyable one. Many gentiomen of eminence were present, including Seere- tary of the Treasury McCulloch, Admiral Farragut, Gen- {pral Hancock and Senator Lane, of Indiana. * Thero was an imposing military display in Boston yee. Serday on the occasion of the presentation of about two undred and fifty battle flags of Massachusetts regiments the Commonwealth, A procession, comprising about ree thousand veterans, marched through the princi atreets, amidst much enthusiasm, to the State House, ro the flags were committed to the keeping of the vernor by General Couch, in an appropriate speech. The remains of President Lincoln were on Thursday joved from the vault in Oak Ridge Cometery, near ingheld, lilinols, to the new vault near the site of Proposed national monument to the memory of the justrious decvaced. In tho Supplement to this morning's Henan wo pub- 8 Communication from an Irishman now resident in is olty who asserts that many of the statements of onr iblin Correspondence given in last Sunday's issue ro ing the condition of that city and ite people, wore He contends that tho tradesmen of Dublin not in the miserable and impoverished condition ted, but that they have good employment and fair wages. He maintains that the poor people that place generally are as well wituated and have an facilities for the enjoyment of iifeas the lower of the majority of large cities, and thinks that would be happy, industrious and contented if they ‘not worried and harassed by agitators who make a vetbood out ef neve Stlevencen, Co The Board of a 1g oeovlon yestorday afr NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DRURMBER 25)" 1865.WITH “SUPPLEMENT | HERALD, SATURDAY, DEUEMBER 23, 1865—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘noon, and transacted & large amount of business, nearly ail of & routine character, A resolution donating two thousand dollars to the Industrial School In Forty-secoud street was ihtroduced gud aid over. The Board wilt meet again at three o'clock this afternoon. Full afd interesting accounts of the disastrous ship- wrecks and loes of lifeon the beach, in the vieini'y of Long Branch, N, J., and at other po'nte, during the ter- riblo gale and snow ‘squall of Inst Wednesday night, are given in another columm. The body of Mrs. Fisher, the wife of the captain of the ill-fated schooner Eveline Rickey, is the only ove which has floated ashore thus far. Tho vessel ia 8 total wreck, not enough of ber being Jeft together to form a raft. The survivors of the wrecks are being cared for by the good people of Long Brauch, while every possible effort ts being made by the fisher- men and wreckers to save the cargoof the schooncr James J, Crandall, and, if possible, to get hor off. In tho action of the Union National Bank against Morris Ketchum & Co., for the recovery of two hundrod and fifty thousand dollars on a cheok issued by tho frm to Graham & Co., the jury, by direction of Judge Suther- land, yesterday brought im a verdict for plaintiff for $256,223 47. Judgment was suspended until hearings at genera) term. A motion was made in the general term of the Supreme Court yesterday for e confirmation of the report made by the commissioners in relation to the land awarded for the purposes of the new Croton reservoir at Washington Heights. Counsel for the owner of the'land argued that @ sufficiont award for damages had not been mado, Tho decision was reserved. A number of decisions were rendered tn the Supreme Court, genoral term, yesterday. Among them was 4 denial ot tho motion to grant a new trial in the ease of Frank Ferris, convicted of the murder of his wife, The judgment in the case of Bernard Friery, found guilty of the murder of Harry Lazarus, was also affirmed. In the suit of David L. Gardiner versus Julia G. Tyler (widow of ex-President ‘Iyler), the appeal from the order changing the recsiver of the estate was dismissed, and the order directing the payment of moneys to Mrs. Tyler was modi- fled by reducing the amount to be paid from one-third to one-fouria of the net income in each case, ‘There was no decrease yesterday in the number of in- terested attendants on the proceedings of the Strong divorce tria!. In fact, thore was rathor an increase, the court room being completely jammed, and there being three or four tines as many waiting outside for a chance to yet in as could do so, The cross-exammation of Mr, Vernon Potter, the husband of Mrs. Electa M. Potter, was continued, and several other witnesses testified, after which, counsel on both sides stating that they rested the case, the Judge gave the jury a solemn caution in regard (o thelr duty, announced that a day nd a half would be allowed for the summing up on each side, and adjourned furthor proceedings till Tuesday next, when tho arguments will be commenced. ‘A docree of divorce from the bonds of matrimony In the case of Olive Logan Delilie against her busband, Howry A. Delile, was filed in the Suprome Court, before Judge Barnard, ou Wednesday, The suit was not de- fond d by Mr. Delile, A strange case came up before Judge Alker, in the Marine Court, yesterday. In February last a bag of gold, purporting to contain five thousand dollars, was delivered from the Park Bank, and in a few hours passed through a number of hands in Wall street, The last purchager opened it, and found at three hundred and ten dollars short. It was traced back to a Mr, Brandt, a broker, who paid the deficiency, but assigned his claim and cause to Mr. Reymert, a lawyer. ‘The Satter brought ap action against the next purchaser, Mr. Mills, to re- cover the amount missing. The jury conld not agree on @ verdict, and were accordingly discharged. Recorder Hoffman yesterday sentenced John Ward, who was convicted last week in the Court of General Sessions of manslaughter in the first degree, to impricon- ment for life in the State Prison. The case of Zeno Bernbam, on motion of the District Attorney, was sent to the Court of Oyer and Terminer for trial, Louis Drohr, a burglar, was seat to the State Prison for five years, ‘and Henry Hogan, who was convicted of an attempt at robbery, was sent to Sing Bing for the same ported. ‘The first of a long series of actions against the Theatri- cal Mavagers’ Union was brought up yesterday before Judge Kivlen, in the Second Juaieal District Court, by # member of the Musical Protective Association. The question involved is whe!her the managers can withhold from tho members of their orchestra who struck for an increase of salary the payment of what they had already earned, ‘The parties in thia case were Manager Stuart, of the ¢ Garden, and Joseph Ottis. Tho heartug of the case was sot down for Tuesday next. is of the following named persons have been Sived to probate by the Surrogate :—Frederick Zwick, y Kenworthy, Isabella Menix, Freelove Kipp and Nelson, ch case the bequests were made to n ol “8 of the docensed, and none of the wile conlained anything of public interest, ‘Tho Canadion papers state that on Mr, Murphy, Presi- dent of the Canadian Fenians, putting in an appearance ! O4awe the other day ho was waited upon by a com- who recommended him to quit the city at once, wa journal saye he took the hint, and adds that he might have smelled brimstone. Was no skating yesterday on either the Park lakes or the Fifth avenue pond. Should tho present frost contt however, thore is little doubt that tho ekati son will commence there in real earnest to day. On the Brooklyn ponds, though, the tco was in goud condition yesterday, and was oxtensively patron- ized. A colored boy, aged fifteen, named Rdward Brown, was arraigned yesterday in the Lower Police Court, botore Jus- tice Dowling, and ploaded guilty to charges of forcibly en- tering the premiscs of- Mr:~Waltor W. Broom, No. 863 ee aes pm last Wednesday morning, stcaling muita wei reed on ‘Suspicion of thet, and his object in the murderous attack appears to huve been revenge more money. The wound inflicted, however, pevere, and 80 ecomplotely stunned Mr, Broom t# to give his assailant time to escape, did not prove fatal. The boy was committed to the Tombs for trial, A especial meeting of the Workingmen’s Union was held last evening, at which a aew constitution was adopted, and a circular was distributed calling for a con- vention of delegates from the various trade associations throughoat the State, to be held at Albany on the 6th of Fobruary. The boye of Grammar School No. 11, in Seventeenth atreet, near Eighth avenue, gave an exbibition yester- day to their friends in the schoolroom. The exercises consisted of vocal and instrumental music, reading, recitations, declamations, ‘addresses, an old fashioned spelling match, &c., in all of which the youthful partici- pants acquitted themselves most creditably, ‘The fine steamship City of Boston, of the Inman line, commanded by the experienced Captain Kennedy, will sail at noon to-day for Queonstown and Liverpool, from pier 44 North river. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The new and elegant steamship Saragossa, Captain Bursloy, of A. Leary’s line, will sail to-day, at three P. M., for Galveston, from pier 50 North rivor. The steamship Star of the Union, Captain Blanchard will sail direct for New Orleans to-day, at three P.M from pier No. 9 North rivor, in Cromwell's line. Tho mails clowe at the Post Office at half-past one P. M. Tho sidewheo! steamship San Jacinto, Captain Love. land, of the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company's line, will sail for Savannah direct at three P, M. to-day, trom pier No. 2 North river. Among the new buildings in the city wor. thy of notice, but which, on account of its up town location has hitherto been overlooked, is the handsome, colnmodious and most com- pletely fitted up structure erected for the court and Jail purpoees of the Fourth pole district, in Fifty- Seventh street, near Third avenue, & sketch of which is given in our Supplement sheet of this morning. The new College Hoapital, on the Bellevue grounds, is A substantial brick and stone building of fifty foet by one hundred, and ts Afty feet bigh, Its cost was about fifty thousand dollars, The objects of 4ts erection were to relieve the other hospitals, to assist the sick poor and to afford facilitice to students of anatomy and surgery. About cloven o'clock ast night a fire broke out on the upper floor of No. 143 Fulton street, which did consider. able damage to that building, but was prevented ox- tending beyond it by the Hxkann fire apparatus and the members of the Fire Department, A fire at New Albany, Indisna, on the night of the 16th inst., destroyed three business houses, involving a loss of sixty thousand to seventy-five thousand dollars, on Which there was buta small insurance. The fire wae sypposed to haze boon the work of incendiaries. 4 terrible bollor oxplonion ocourred ia ® foundry ab Logansport, Indiana, on the 16th inst. Five children were insiantly killed and two employes in the foundry wore badly scalded. The boiler was blown upwards of eighty yards from its foundation, the building in which 1 was located being completely wrecked. Wilson, the murderer of Devoe, at Portage, in this State, was hanged yestorday at Genceeo, in Livingston county. He was a most hardened criminal, refused to allow eny clergyman to attend him in prison or at the gallows, and continued indifferent to his fate to his last moment. He declared his innocenoo of the murder for which he was excouted, but admitted having committed two other murders and been engaged in various villanios} A safe in the establishment of the United States Sani- tary Commission in Philadelphia was robbed yesterday morning of six thousand four hundred and fifty doliats iu governinent bonds. ‘The stock market was firmer yesterday. Governments were steady. Gold closed at 14534. ‘There was but little change in commorcial affairs yes- terday, the downward turn in gold exerting no influence whatever, The volume of business was small. Gro- corles were steady, with a rather more lively trade. Cot- ton was steady. Petroleum was dull and lower. On ‘Chango flour was higher, Pork was steady. Beef was unchanged. Lard ruled firmer. Butter and cheese were unchanged. Whiskey was nominal and lower. Tho Political Parties of the Future. The contest now going on in Congress over the question of reconstraction furnishes some idea of the issues which will divide the parties of the country in the future. With the collapse of the rebellion and the constitutional aboll- tion of slavery ended all the questions which have heretofore divided the parties. The con- sequence is that we now find them in a chaotic state, The events and developments during this session of Congress will, however, deter- mine how the various elements will crystalize and the form in which they will be arrayed. Sufficient has already transpired to chow that the great line of division will be the constiiu- tionalists on one side and the radicals on the other, That the former must by the very na- ture of things make President Johnsen’s policy their rallying point is evident. The latter wiil carry into its columns all who oppose his plan for adjusting our internal affairs; but the precise way in which the constitutionalists, who are now te be found in the ranks of all parties, will be drawn together, we must await events to de- termine. President Johnson having taken his position, and manifested a determination to maintain it, the quesiion how those who endorse that policy, yet were identified with different parties during the war, will affiliate, rests with the majority in Congress to decide. There is no one thing more positively estab- lished by the history of nations the world over, as Alison fully proves, than the fact that the party which attempts to opposo the govern- ment, or obstructs its operations when engaged in a war for its preservation, can never again ob:ain ascendency or become the ruling power in the nation. There is a national pride, an esprit de corps, among the masses, which causes them to ever afierwards look with suspicion upon that party and the men who Place them- selves in that position, This has killed the democratic party, which was s0 long the great power in this country. It settles the question about that party ever becoming the ruling power of this country, except through such blun- ders on the part of the administration party as will lead us to new convulsions. Unfortunately tho members of the present Congress were elected to their positions while the war was pending, and do not seem to possess the stateamanship and ability to onable them to comprehend the great changea that have taken place. They are inclined to adhere to the line of policy in vogue during the war, and not to change with the exigencies of the occasion, The adoption of vigorous measures during a great struggle or war #3 not only invariably sustained by the people, but is necessary to the life of the nation, But the moment that the object for which the war was waged has been accomplished, another and a far different line of policy is demanded. This is necessary to coment the victories of war as well as to secure all its fraiis, President Johnson was one of our most earnest of public mon fora vigorous and relentless prosecution of the war while the rebellion existed; but he is states- man enough to realize that the adoption of conciliating an@ not radical measures is the only way to adjust the questions which arise when the war cesses, This the best Interests of the country demand, It is because the Pre- sidont comprehends this fact and acts upon it that he now has so strong hold upon the aifections of the messes, ‘These facts must sooner or Inter bring about a separation between’ the radicals: ‘tutionalisis in the republican pat yee gress, That result i inevitable, ‘The cousti- tutionclists, under. the lead of Mr. Johnson, will be the strong party of the country. It. may not be the dominant party in this Con- gress, but it will be at the next Congressional election. If the radicals manage to retain a majority of both houses with them in the sup- port of their policy, then the democratic party, of necessity, will be the nucleus for the consti- tutionalists to rally upon. But if, on the other hand, a majority of the republicans in Congress abandon the radical leaders, then they will be- come the foundation upon which all supporters of President Johnson’s restoration policy will rest, and build up the great Constitutional party ofthe country. Upon this point hinges the whole question how the parties of the future will be formed. A separation hbe- tween those two elements in the republi- can party must take place. Such has been the result in all countries after a great in- ternal struggle or revolution, Human nature is the same the world over. During the great struggle in the seventeenth century between the British Parliament and King Charles the First there was perfect union between all fac- tions until the King was executed and his party destroyed. No sooner was this accom plished than a contest sprang up between those who had directed all their efforts to the accomplishment of that one object. The com- mon enemy having been disposed of, the factions in Parliament began to quarrel themselves. A fierce struggle took place be- tween the Independents, Presbyterians and the moderates of the Fifth monarchy party. We again find a similar result near the close of the eighteenth century in France. The Girond- ists and the Jacobins made common cause against Louis Capet and the aristocracy until they had succeeded in overturning the exist- ing form of government and establishing a con- stitutional one in its place. No sooner was this accomplished than a fend between those two parties commenced. The revolu- tion, which the Girondists were foremost in instigating and bringing about, had so unsettled the public mind that the Jacobins, through thoir clubs, were able to stir up such ® foror that the Ulrondisis were fright ened into ylojding ome voit after another to the clamor of the Jacobins, until finally, although in s majority In the Assembly, they were no! only unable to protect the constitu- tion which they had formed, but fell the vic- tims of the revolution they had created. Their fall left the Jacobins in full until the excesses under their rule brought on the reign of terror, which ended by the execution of the Jacobin leaders, The radicals of the present day occupy & position similar to that of the Jacobins in France at the close of the struggle between the constitutionalists and the King. Every point which the constitutionalist in the repub- lican party yields to the radicals strengthens the latter. But the very nature of our insti- tutions, end the fact that our people have been so long accustomed to our present form of government, render it impossible for the radi- cals to ever gain the ascendency here that the Jacobins did in France. Besides, we have an Executive in the person of President Johnson who possesses the firmness to hold them in check. These facts, with the other important point of our periodical reference of all politi- cal questions. to the people in the election of representatives, will keep the radicals ims | minority in this country, whether they control this Congress or not. The constitutionalists, in whatever form events may force them to concentrate, will obtain the ascendency and maintain it. It is, however, of great importance to the coun- try whether the constitutional party in this Con- gress are successful or not, With their success comes the immediate and complete restoration of the Union and the triumph of Mr. Johnson’s policy. If the radicals control that body, then restoration will be postponed, the finan- cial, commercial and social interests of the country jeopardized, until an appeal’ can be taken and a decision obtained from the jury of the people at the ballot box. In the meantime the radicals may sow the seeds of internal strife and inflict a severe blow to the country. But in doing this they will only make their fall the greater when the day of reckoning comes. During the war the Southern Siates tried to leave the Union, and the North tried to keep them iv, under the constitution. Then the con- stitutionalisis triumphed. Now the Southern States are trying to come back iato the Union, under the constitution, and the radicals are trying to keep them out. The Constitutional party must triumph a8 before. A New and Striking View of the Fenian Troubles. We publish this morning a long and interest ing report of the Fonian troubles from the O'Mahony point of view. Heretofore the Sen- atorial side of the question has been very fully presonted, and the O'Mahony faction have suf- fered in public estimation from their own tault in refusing information to the reporters. But now the venerable Senate—three weeks and a half old—are placed before our readers in a new and striking light, and everything that can be said against their proceedings and in favor of O'Mahony is very strongly urged in the prose and poetry of the article which we print to-day. This account of the Fenian fracas is from the same source as that intro- ductory description of the organization which attracted such general attention on both sides of the Atlantic, and was copied into the Lon- don Times and most of the English and Cana- dian papers. The majority of its developments are gutirely new and of a very startling char- acter, and altogether it is very well calculated | to fire the Irish heart with O’Mahony fuel fresh from the bogs of the Green Isle. Tt appears from the siatements & this article that the Fenian Brotherhood now have a faud of two millions of dollars—-one million and a half in the possession of the O’Mahony clique and the balance in the hands of the Senatorial or Roberis faction, Of this Senatorial half a million, two hundred thousand dollars are re- ported as deposited with the Tribune Associa- tion. ‘his fact, that the Tribune Association, with Greeley as Head Centre, are acting as bankers for the Fenians, ig one of the most curious yet brought to light in connection with the Lrotherhood. Another fact of even greater significance and imporiance is the reported declaration of Secretary Stanton that our government could not assist the Fenisns in any way until they had assumed the character of belligereuts, and his quiet int that, whenever they..becume a hel- Tigerent .power,. our goveramont would: re- whize them, as Grent Britain: recognized the Southern rebels. -Acting: upon this bint, both tle O’Mahony and Senatorial divisions are said to be preparing to make a demonstra- tion upon Canada, and it is not at all improba- ble that before very long @ Fenian army will appear on the banks of the St. Lawrence, and there demand of the United States the sume belligerent rights which England accorded to the so-called Southern confederacy. The extract from the Londou Times which we published the other day in regard to the in- creage of the territory of the United States comes in asa remarkable appendix to these Fenian schemes. ‘The Times declares, in so many words, that if Canada desires to unite with this country “the British people would only feel the most passing regret at the loss of a name and the proportionate aggrandizement of the United States.” This hint is quite as significant to the Couadians as that of Secretary Stanton is to the Fenians. England hae evidontly made up her mind to head off the Feniaus, let Cana- da go and hold on to those possessions which she can certainly retain. Clearly, then, if the Fenians do not make haste they will find no Canada to conquer; for it is probable that the British provinces will apply for admission to the Union and be peaceably annexed before the next Fourth of July. The Fenians will then die out, having no fighting to do, no hos- tile territory to invade, no chance for official recognition and no claims to belligerent rights. The only Fenian trouble ia that case will be how to expend that two millions of dollars, and instead of « great war, and the final Irish sunburst, and the green above the red, we shall see the brave Brotherhood disbanding in ® general jollification, regardless of expense. Exrravacant Cuaroes or Miniivers—Tar Way to Brno Tazm Down.—It is not very often our fashionable ladies complain of mil- liners’ charges when their taste is gratified. In- deed, they are disposed to be very lavish upon a “love of bonnet” or a “charming dress.” But their amiability and extravagance have been tried to the utmost. Loud murmurs are now heard all round of the extortionate charges mado by tho tyrants of fashion. Five hundred per cent profit ona bonnet is considered by | “the teado” aa got et all aut of tha way, Qn ! many it is higher. Other articles of drees ere fathers ask. Our advice is to the ladies, “You sholl bonnets at such a price.” No; that would not do; for then they would assuredly have them at any price. This is the way, husbands and fathers: let things go on as they are going on; do not interfere at all; the milliners will increase their charges; the ladies will rebel against the extortion (for they are beginning to rebel already); bonnets and dresses will be made at home, or they will be purchased else- where; the milliners will Lose their business, and their charges will then come down as naturally as possible, When an evil reaches its highest apse da there must come @ reaction. Be patient, therefore, suffering paters familias; do not make any opposition, and the apheaving will come by and by to relieve you of-your bur- dens. The point will be reached | when the ladies shall fully rebel, bi not before. oN ee The Case of Jeff. Davis. The radicals in Congress are not satisflod to let the person whom they call the “representa- tive man of the rebellion” pass out of sight. They protest against that oblivion to which the good sense of the country is willing to consign him; they insist upon keeping him before the people asa culprit. And though they do not clearly clamor for his blood, they perhaps go as near to it as would be consistent with Con- gressional propriety. In this they follow Closely those fierce bigots of the great rebellion in England who could be satisfled with nothing less than the death of Charles the First; and they put themselves historically in the same class with the violent elements of the French Revolution that coolly took the life of Louis the Sixteenth. Was it wise to take the life of cither Charles or Louis? We can see the passions that urged to those acis—the party hates and violence that were to be satisfied. We can judge the questions from a safe historic dis- tance, and, so judged, the universal decision of modern times has been that those executions were not only unwise, but cruelly foolish. They were blunders of the worst character, for they belittled great national causes into volgar struggles that had revenges and thirsts for blood to gratify. The consent of wiser men to those acts gave the supremacy to the worst elements of the Parliament and the Assembly, and so paved the way for the ruin of the popular cause. Those executions are the blots and steins in the history of the two great events. It is useleas to aay that the cases are dif- ferent, They are identical in all essential respects, and where they differ the difference iis not in favor of those who urge the execution of Davis. Charles.and Louis were men revered by large classes of the population as legitimate sovereigns; and Davis was respected us the representative of the sovercign majesty of a people—the chosen Executive who could do only their will, and whose personality was sunken in his office. Jofferaon Davis is not a criminal in the ordi- nary sense, -Hie-acts are lifted out of the cate- gory of crimes by thot national character. They are to be judged in « different light from that fo which wo examine those common | offences against soclety for which we prepare the prison and the halter. In the celebrated debate in Parliament on the American colonies Edmund Burke recognized the difficulty of framing a bill of indictment against « whole people. This same difficulty embarrasses the case of Davis. Where can we allege any act against the United States that was his person- ally, and that was not doue by him as the representative of a people, who, according to the dogmas on which our government is founded, had a full right to the exercise of sovereign powers? Did Jefferson Davis wage war against us at Gettysburg, on July 2, 1863? Then who was it waged wer at Vicksburg, on the same dayt [ff we sot about accus- ing of treason the whole people, whose wall this man carried out, from what stand- point shall we frame our accusation’ Shall it be from the standpoint of those in the government .whe maintain that the Southern States now are and slways have been sovereign, or: from ‘the ‘mandpoint of thove who inaintatn that the Southora Stated ure, conquered territory, and, thorefore, that the confederacy was u foreign nation? Doubtless we should frame it from this latter, as this is the view of those who elamor for the trial of Davis. But if he was the ruler of a foreign na- tion, how shall we punish him for treason against our government ? We must take in this cause higher ground than any people or government has hitherto had the moral courage to take. We must throw aside the ancient fictions, and deal with facts as facts, We mmst recognize that men like Davis have had their grand uses in the life of a nation; that they make those stands and cause those wars that purify government and render it impossible for it to become partial and tyrannical. Davis represented some mil- ons of men who believed that they were op- pressed, and who rose with the spirit of freemen, Shall we stultify our history—our immortal declaration—by saying that the representative of ull those mon deserves death for having been their representative? Where does gov- ernment originate? With the people—we de- clare by every fact of our history. And with how many people if not with eight mil- lions? We agree with the radical members that Congress should take up the case of Davis, but we believe it should take it up only to set him at large on these high grounds: recognizing openly and bravely as the senso of the American people that acts such as his do not deserve death, We shudder as we read of the terrible acts of British officials in Jamaica, who outbarbarize barbarism ; we shudder to con- template British judges sending mon to twenty years’ penal servitude for the crime of desiring a better government for their country. Let us be consistent with these feelings, and sect an example of national magnanimity that may put that Power to the blush. Our cause does not call for any man’s blood, and we must not let 0 bes put its fra : P bloody stains on onr A Srer tatiana ene tary of the Navy has just issued an order that “officers of the navy not residing within the limits of the District of Columbia are prohibited from coming within the same, unless under per- miasign or nuthgsity of the denartmont,” Tapas are Sa a RT LE eT a ey TE Ley SL Te IT iow amen of which timy are citizens. The motive which prompted this order will be understood at once by those who reside in Washington, or who frequently visit that city. The great number of naval officers who have been in the habit of congregating at the federal capital, besides those who belong to the Navy Yard or departmental bureaus and those whe reside or have official business there, have proved troublesome to the department and oun, and have not unfrequently fallen into habits of dissipation. Many a brave young officer has wrecked his future prospects by loafing about and dissipating in the hotels and fast society of Washington, It is better for them to be away from such temptations and from political influences. The order is oal- culated to preserve better discipline over them; and they will be able to obtain permission to visit the capital whonever they may have legt- timate business there. The order will bear rather heavy at first, perhaps, upon the young ladies who found these gallant fellows such charming companions at the balls andhops; but we. bope they will not be too severe om Grandfather Welles, and will yield gracefully to their fate, like the subjugated rebels, i Mr. Senator Somyge anp THE Oncans oF Me. Sewarn.—Mr. Senator Sumner committed a great mistake in recently comparing the Presi- dent’s special message on. the condition of the South to the “whitewashing message of Franklin Pierce” on tho affairs of Kansas. This, we think, must now be apparent to the Senator himself, He must be convinced, from the re- marks drawn from republican aod demooratis Senators, by this comparison of Johnson to poor Pierce, that it was unjust, and that dispns- sionate men of all parties have an abiding faith in the honesty and patriotism of President Johnson. But it is a litile remarkable, after the coalition between Messrs. Stevens, of Penn- sylvania, and Raymond, of New York, in the building of the radical reconstruction platform of this Congress, that the newspaper organs especially devoted to the interests of Mr. Seward should be among the first and the most zealous to denounce Senator Sumner for his outspoken hostility to the President’s policy and opinions, The organs of Mr. Seward would have us boliove that they are shocked at the injustice the Sonator’s allusions to the President's late special message; but this, wo suspect, is @ mere pretence, and that they have other rea- sons, lying much deeper, for the turning of their guns against the Senator in question. Mr. Sumner is chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, in which position he has doubtless on more than one oo- casion been brought into a collision with the Seoretary of State touching the policy to be pursned towards England and France during the late war, In the Senator's elaborate and learned, discourse on our foreign relations, at the Cooper Institate in this city, im the fall of 1868, it will be remembered that he exposed and denounced in the. most effective and decisive manner the treachcrous neutrality of Engtand and France, their scandalous: pro- ceedings in support of our Southern rebellion, including their “belligerent rights,” and the Freach usurpation of Mexico. It will be remembered that this bold and patriotic dis course of Mr, Sumuer, as against England and France, was regarded at the -time ag fore. shadowing a more decided forgign polléy at Washington than had prevaile up fo that date, and that it might possibly involve a change im the State Department from the pressure of the radical anti-Seward influence. At all events, we conjecture that Senator Sumner siands in the way of the Seward wire- workers, and that they are sceking not only to upset him on the isgue of Southern recongtruc- tion, but to destroy his influence as the Senate's. chairman on Foreign Relations. Upon this point, however, we dare say that if Mr. Sumner still adheres to his foreign policy as laid down by him in 1863 there is every probability that it will before long be found to be more in har mony with the views of President Johnson than the soothing system of Mr. Seward, which has served a good purpose, but which now may be wisely cast aside, Tararercar. ] Rerorw 1s Progness. — Mise Rush- ton’s new theatre on Droadway opens this long We: tres now controjled ‘bythe sily Managers’ ‘Association:completely superseded. by now and better estdblishments. The theatrical reform which we inaugurated is thus going on most successfully and satisfacto- rily. But this fact should not be allowed to interfere with the action of the next Legisla- ture in taxing each of the present theatres five or ten thousand dollars in the form of a license fee. The most of the present managers are foreigners. They boast that they are making large fortunes; and, if so, they will probably go back (o their own countries to enjoy them. Thus they will escape taxation almost entirely, if the Legislature does not place a license fee upon them large enough to compensate the government in some degree for permitting them to remain here and make their money. Among the reform measures before the Legis- latare this should at once take « prominent po- sition. Mattonancy or rae Ricumonp Exquinen— The Richmond Enguirer, true to its original instincts, makes a malignant and ruffianly at- tack upon our correspondent in that place. The assault is altogether unjustifiable and un- worthy any newspaper in respectable standing. But this exhibition of a jealous and malignant spirit is nothing new for the Enquirer. We re- member that some years ago, during the Know Nothing times, we sent a special reporter to Richmond to report Governor Wise. The Enquirer on that occasion attacked our re- porter in the same ungentlemanly and un- reasonable manner, and endeavored to ex- cite popular prejudice against him even to the extent of Lynch law. We had hoped the sad experiences of the rebellion had taught the Enquirer and its malevolent clique some de- cenoy; but we fear they can never be reclaimed. All that respectable, law abiding and Union loving people have to do is to let the thing alone. It will soon perish amidst the nest of sepesh vipers that | that control it. Tux Wortn AND THE rz DBMOCRACY.—The World has undertaken the hopeless and thankless task of resurrecting the democracy. It cannot be * done, The democracy was killed long ago Juss Such papers as the World, and no party v6 sustained on principles edyocated by an pols of has stama, eA w